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Kate Rothwell

@kroth.bsky.social

I wrote books as Kate and also under the name Summer Devon

created September 28, 2023

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

do you mean the one with the little girl in israel, or is this some homegrown US horror?

3/9/2025, 6:52:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alexandra Petri (@petridishes.bsky.social) reposted

Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.

2/9/2025, 8:29:44 PM | 513 158 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

yup. he's too gleeful about persecuting rather than protecting trans people and homeless people. We don't need any more punch-down presidents.

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Profile picture Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted

It’s worth noting WHY Epstein survivors are speaking out: Because the Trump Administration is making corrupt deals with their predator and hiding evidence of his accomplice’s crimes.

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Profile picture Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) reposted

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

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Profile picture Jodi Jacobson (@jljacobson.bsky.social) reposted

Anyone who says: “well RFK has some good ideas,“ should be written off as crazy. Sure, there’s lots of people that have talked about reforming the food system and making sure kids get a more balanced diet, but they’re also not conspiracy theorists and liars. Do not promote the wrong people.

3/9/2025, 3:51:25 AM | 5347 805 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

from dadandburied (I think it's from twitter) Guys, I understand the impulse, but actively wishing for someone's death is classless and cruel. The Christian way is to demonize their lifestyle, remove their rights, eliminate their healthcare, dismantle their social support systems, implement systemic controls to marginalize and disenfranchise them, encourage violence towards their communities while whitewashing all history of such violence, make examples of anyone who supports or defends them, and then WAIT for them to die! Do better.
3/9/2025, 4:08:09 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

He's 100% the one I'd vote for but I'm grateful for Newsom's shit-posting (not enough to vote for him)

3/9/2025, 3:58:24 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

Fox refuses to cover what the Epstein victims are saying publicly for the first time, but they are covering military jets flying over them during their press conference.

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Profile picture T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) reposted

Trump will do literally anything but release the Epstein Files

3/9/2025, 3:55:31 PM | 173 55 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted

In New to this but…

3/9/2025, 12:38:34 PM | 49 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sunny Moraine (@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social) reposted

HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO WE NEED TO FUCKING TEST THIS SHIT

3/9/2025, 1:43:12 PM | 376 118 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Benjamin Moore's (3rd one down) seems most ominous: pale and diseased, like the times.

3/9/2025, 2:26:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Benjamin Moore = cinnamon slate. It sits next to another color that goes with it. Leather saddle which is more obvious.

Cinnamon Slate is the color of the year. It's the poo of someone who might have celiac disease or some kind of gastric infection. (Or so I found when looked up
3/9/2025, 2:21:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Pantone's color for 2025. At this point it's clear they're all in on the same shit-ship.

mocha mousse...take away the elegant class the color rests in and what do you have? Poop.
3/9/2025, 2:13:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

what is it with paint companies declaring the color of poop as the color of the year? are they telling us something? this is glidden's color for 2026 "warm mahogany"

warm mahogany? eh. Looking at it on a good day I'd see chocolate, otherwise poop the rest of the time. Dog poop, not baby or chicken poop.
3/9/2025, 2:09:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

2/9/2025, 8:56:43 PM | 33821 9348 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

2/9/2025, 8:57:48 PM | 41056 10961 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joey Cochran (@jtcochran.bsky.social) reposted

If you read only one thing today, read this. open.substack.com/pub/karenswa...

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Profile picture The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted

ICE has resumed doing business with a controversial hacking company that had been dropped for running afoul of a Biden-era executive order against dealings with unethical spyware vendors.

3/9/2025, 9:00:13 AM | 104 84 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

After He’s Gone open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

2/9/2025, 8:53:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) reposted

Curtail? Congress and SCOTUS have willingly handed over power to the president.

2/9/2025, 3:47:28 PM | 277 98 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

gift article wapo.st/4fYo0z2

2/9/2025, 4:20:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Judge Says Trump’s Use of Troops in L.A. Is Illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

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Profile picture Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson.bsky.social) reposted

Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…

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Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture leon (@leyawn.bsky.social) reposted

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

2/9/2025, 4:48:20 AM | 12151 2666 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says,
1/9/2025, 11:16:00 PM | 42880 5033 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

This one feels less like mockery

2/9/2025, 1:31:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

or the times she cited scientific inventions created by her worm-hole riddled brain.

2/9/2025, 1:27:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

I missed the part when she was US Secretary of Health and Human Services

2/9/2025, 1:25:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

Someone please kill me right now.

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0. By Tom Bartlett
1/9/2025, 5:20:23 PM | 7142 1058 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

well yeah, apparently you're no longer necessary

2/9/2025, 1:24:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.

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Profile picture Ed Hirsch (@edhirsch.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

John Fredericks: "I love this video of Don Jr with numb gums" bsky.app/profile/deni...

1/9/2025, 3:00:16 PM | 91 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lizzie Kodpuak née Acid Lich (Gröbnerpilled era) (@acidlich.bsky.social) reposted

Periodic reminder I was tortured in childhood over autism and that’s what RFK Jr is trying to usher back in

1/9/2025, 3:50:15 PM | 307 79 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🇺🇸🇲🇽 The Babe with the Power (@babewiththepower.bsky.social) reposted

Cry me a river. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

1/9/2025, 2:50:32 AM | 7 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re thinking of violins. I had two trombonists, a french horn player and a drummer. Next door neighbor had a single violinist. She suffered far more than I did.

1/9/2025, 12:43:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

31/8/2025, 4:07:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Far something but not left

31/8/2025, 12:48:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Far left organized over this? Doubt it

31/8/2025, 12:46:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 2:42:34 AM | 11334 3151 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Cybertruck of the seas

31/8/2025, 12:41:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 (@devilstower.bsky.social) reposted

A record number of deaths from rabies. In part because vaccination rates for dogs have plunged. Because stupidity. “… nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.”

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Profile picture The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted

Ghislaine Maxwell hinted at Epstein’s ties to Trump officials – why wasn’t she pressed for names?

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Profile picture The Editorial Board (@editorialboard.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

10. Critics of the Democratic Party will point out that, well, ackshually, Harris did say she supported access to gender transition care for undocumented immigrants. But that was once, in 2019, during her first run, and it wasn’t a campaign pledge. She wasn’t running on it.

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Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

WE'RE ABOUT TO PUT A MEMECOIN OUT 😂

31/8/2025, 11:22:22 AM | 5427 1671 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture greengrace.bsky.social (@greengrace.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Hey, Florida! Someone should find out the daily cost of this operation and make an attractive, maybe 🌈 colored, sign giving daily updates on the cost of the FCP.(Florida Crosswalk Patrol) Take shifts, ensuring the sign is there all day, every day.

30/8/2025, 7:43:58 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Tax dollars protecting a crosswalk from a colorful chalk tribute

31/8/2025, 2:04:40 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hyperlexic (@hyperlexic.bsky.social) reposted

They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING

30/8/2025, 11:53:19 PM | 6148 2035 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Source: CNN

30/8/2025, 8:06:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Yay!

30/8/2025, 5:28:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Q: How many MAGA does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Trump says its fixed and the MAGA all sit around in the dark and clap!

30/8/2025, 5:01:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

real life patient/dr bonding

30/8/2025, 4:44:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

I had an appt with new Dr for the first time. We spent maybe 5 minutes talking about my health. In response to a question about my diet I said "I'm rage eating because of Trump" and we spent the rest of the appt (and maybe more) discussing the schmuck and what regular citizens can do to fight.

30/8/2025, 4:41:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Will the C.D.C. Survive? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/h...

30/8/2025, 4:10:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing

30/8/2025, 2:30:31 AM | 13714 3781 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BETH BAE (@yolowinr.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I knew that he was doing this as many of you did. He would up and down the market with his announcements up one day down the next buying in between selling in between. This is stock manipulation and is a crime. It is a felony. And yes a felony even for the president.

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Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

Breaking News: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out fast-track deportations of people detained far from the southern border.

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Profile picture Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted

“It’s just incredibly cruel.” Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump’s wall through a wildlife refuge.

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Profile picture Naotoshi Maeda (@naotoshimaeda.bsky.social) reposted

Trump is abusing the global economy like a personal stock market scheme. This manipulative prick is wrecking industries and pocketing power while Americans pay higher prices because of his idiotic tariffs. Of course, he never had that authority under IEEPA. He is the living embodiment of grift.

30/8/2025, 12:10:18 AM | 583 163 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CNN (@cnn.com) reposted

Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

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Profile picture Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel.bsky.social) reposted

What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

27/8/2025, 4:14:12 PM | 825 400 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Where Your Medicines Are Made www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/h...

29/8/2025, 9:25:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Welch: Everybody's missing the point here. The point is, he's doing this on purpose. He's priming the public to get accustomed to having the military in the streets

29/8/2025, 2:22:41 AM | 13182 4206 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chantal James (@chantalalive.bsky.social) reposted

Are they trying to rewrite Dubya's legacy ON THIS DAY like his neglect of New Orleans was an oopsie? Kanye saying he didn't care about Black people was the last time he was right. Y'all gone whitewash all these fascists including Trump & give them storied places in the pantheon.

29/8/2025, 5:56:09 PM | 318 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Always and always

29/8/2025, 11:21:36 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nathan Newman- Remove Child Rapist Trump from White House (@nathansnewman.bsky.social) reposted

RFK Jr. ordered head of CDC to break the law. That's the story and Dems should demand immediate impeachment hearings www.rawstory.com/cdc-firing-i...

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Profile picture Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

29/8/2025, 12:18:30 AM | 13323 4514 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

And how about when the flu mutates and infects farm workers. They and their families/towns/cities can experience the same “strengthening” die-off

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Profile picture Michael McFaul (@mcfaulmike.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted

August 29, 2025

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Profile picture Matt Zoller Seitz (@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social) reposted

"The founders of (MORE) saw the mainstream American press as stagnant, conservative, and unwilling to examine themselves at a time when the country was convulsing with social movements and the public was losing confidence in institutions." The period was 1971-78. www.cjr.org/the_profile/...

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

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Profile picture Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) reposted

Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.

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Profile picture Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) reposted

One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.

28/8/2025, 8:47:36 PM | 2833 1002 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

Ignore the messenger,sure, ok. But do NOT ignore this message

28/8/2025, 9:00:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Butler (@peter-butler.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

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Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Newsom: Perhaps the president could deploy the National Guard in every corner of Mississippi. Murder rate is out of control there. And the governor may want to make that phone call.

28/8/2025, 6:12:53 PM | 23012 6651 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social)

"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas" --Dandy Don Meredith and many mid-western dads

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Profile picture Jeremy Faust, MD (@jeremyfaust.bsky.social) reposted

Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.

28/8/2025, 6:49:54 PM | 33565 7854 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

IF ok fine yes IF

28/8/2025, 7:33:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Yea. And my post is “not doomed YET.” When he’s leading a pack in a couple of years you’ll be closer to correct.. …Except. Really truly doomed? When opposition candidates end up imprisoned poisoned or defenestrated.

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Not really. I think if it was 2027, maybe the sucks to be us point is real he’s at the top of my “won’t vote for that one” list. (Right next to Cheney) Unless the other choice is Trump.

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Profile picture T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) reposted

I truly don't understand how these people got so fixated on tariffs as their preferred statecraft "We will punish Norway by punching ourselves in the testicles" Incoherent codswallop

28/8/2025, 4:29:51 PM | 257 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Congresswoman Gwen Moore (@repgwenmoore.bsky.social) reposted

Working Americans pay higher tax rates than Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies — and it’s no accident. Republicans have rigged the system and made tax cuts for the rich permanent in their tax bill and they’re paying for it by cutting your health care. www.cbsnews.com/news/income-...

28/8/2025, 3:46:06 PM | 83 40 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

horrifying

28/8/2025, 3:04:22 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.

Screenshot of two tweets from Matt Walsh’s verified Twitter account (@MattWalshBlog). First tweet (17 hours ago): “It’s time to have a national conversation about common sense restrictions on transgenders.” The tweet has 1.3K comments, 3.8K retweets, 42K likes, and 1M views. Second tweet (18 hours ago): “It wasn’t all that long ago that anyone who identified as the opposite sex would be involuntarily committed to an insane asylum. Does anyone at this point seriously think that our current approach is an improvement?” The tweet has 666 comments, 1.9K retweets, 21K likes, and 362K views. First tweet is by Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles), reposted by Christopher F. Rufo. It reads: “For the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this delusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely—the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” The tweet has 816 comments, 2.4K retweets, 17K likes, and 379K views. Second tweet is by Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo), 20 hours ago: “The trans cult hatched such an enormous propaganda campaign, that, for a number of years, they were able to obscure an obvious truth: pumping kids full of synthetic hormones, while telling them they can change from boy to girl, will only end in tragedy or disaster.” The tweet has 878 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.2K likes, and 120K views. Third tweet is also by Christopher F. Rufo, 20 hours ago: “We should now put to rest the libertarian delusion that transgenderism is a matter of ‘personal choice,’ or ‘live and let live.’ It’s an ideology that has done grave damage to millions of Americans, and has unleashed a nihilistic wave of violence on our society. Enough.” The tweet has 921 comments, 1.5K retweets, 9.6K likes, and 293K views.
28/8/2025, 3:01:31 PM | 4027 1665 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gary Longsine 📱 (@arbiteriapetus.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Russell Vought is a Christian Nationalist. A thread highlighting the work of journalists like @brucewilson.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social who tried to warn us. bsky.app/profile/arbi...

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Profile picture Kate Tuttle (@katekilla.bsky.social) reposted

I haven't written this kind of personal essay in years, so it was interesting to revisit this one, originally published in 2018, that @noahmichelson.bsky.social asked me to update. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Profile picture Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

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Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

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Profile picture Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted

Another excellent piece out by @drjudystone.bsky.social. Please read it and spread the word that RFK Jr. must go. Now.

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Profile picture sof' hum for the dreadlock vanguard (@upfromsumdirt.bsky.social) reposted

back when superman was like "fuck evil landlords; give me prison reform!"

comicbook panel of superman smashing a warden's face into a plate of nasty food and saying
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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

and good god, I wish to fuck they would do more for Mamdani!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

they're not picking him as much as the media is.. . and the Dems are just joining up with anyone who can make a dent in Trump. ANYONE. Say what you like about Newsom (please, do) he's a showman.

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump sells Trump 2028 hats in his white house shop. He steamrolling the constitution every day. Not enough rich/powerful people are stepping up to WTF at him. I'll join the "Fuck the Schmucks" parade and work against Newsom and Cheney when Trump isn't on the road to dictatorship.

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Profile picture Kate Rothwell (@kroth.bsky.social) reply parent

hey without schmucks like him we're really doomed. 1. it's not presidential election season yet. 2. if people -- gross people awful people wonderful people ex-MAGA -- don't work to eliminate trump, there won't be an election.

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